Go on, post one up, it's got to be epic! He's a beautiful man, but he's got a girl's name so it's alright!
Ondra truly rocks, heard an interview where he was asked what his weakness was and he said roof climbing, jeezus if that's his weakness I'm a monkeys uncle. 😉
Possible thread killer..sorry
Great song, great perfomance.
Watch Moon flailing away in the background and Entwhistels fingers flying. Brilliant.
[edit] and turn the volume right up from about 6:40.
Gotta have some Rory:
Angus Young playing Let There Be Rock - Live in Paris sometime in the 70s I think it was.
it's got to be epic! He's a beautiful man,
Fair enough, here ya go 😉
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Who says wimminz can't play the harmonica? Big Mama sure can and there's some really sizzling sax playing too.
Someone had to post it, great footage too.
Rory Gallagher
We saw the tribute band Sinnerboy recently, even with a crowd of 20 it was still an awesome night.
And the whole of the AC/DC Live at River Plate, but mainly because of the batshit audience jumping non-stop for the entire performance.
My wife is out tonight so it's football followed by that particular DVD I reckon.
I don't know how many times I saw the film Woodstock! The 70's were bloomin' brilliant for music.
Didn't know there was a Rory tribute band and hope they recreated the energy in his performances. 🙂
I seem to be a sucker for bands that had a brief, magnificent heyday, then hung around for too long delivering ever diminishing returns, on which note, here's some heyday:
Thread wouldn't be right without Born to Run, so here it is:
Nailed it.
Among everything else they did, it's easy to forget how hard these guys could rock...
Didn't know there was a Rory tribute band and hope they recreated the energy in his performances.
Surprised me when I saw the posters, was suspicious until I went to the gig, they were brilliant, guitars tuned to perfection so they sounded like R.G. before they even started playing.
I liked the fact that they even asked which version of Million Miles Away we wanted to hear, probably weren't surprised when my shout of 'Irish Tour!' was taken up by everybody else in the audience* 8)
*all twenty of them, Edinburgh obviously isn't a big Gallagher town 🙁
It's all about the bass..
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I have no idea how to post up YouTube footage, but as far as live albums go here's my tenpeneth worth:
Deep Purple Made in Japan
UFO Strangers in the night
Thin Lizzy Live & dangerous
Neil Young Live rust
Free Live!
ACDC if you want blood
and yes I was a teenager in the 70's
Some great ones here, notably Maiden and Queen.
Thunder at Donnington in '90 was a bit special. Opened the show. Left everyone else feeling very flat trying to follow up!
I've seen a few of the bands named above live, and listened to plenty of those gigs as recorded, but I've got to say that the first one listed, Fleetwood Mac, was the biggest disappointment of them all. Supported by Jethro Tull and Hall and Oates, Fleetwood Mac at Wembley in about 1990 were technically excellent but absolutely soul-less. I remember them for being absolutely uncharismatic. (Hall and Oates were so cheesy it was embarrassing, btw!).
Peter Green though, a few years later in a small sports hall here in Swansea, was excellent.
My brother was right up the front. Bastard.
Ducks Delux Coast to Coast
To all the posters linking to Queen - bear in mind that Freddie based his stage performance on Hitler or Mussolini. Think of that and try to watch him now.... 😆
Freddie had all of Wembley in the palm of his hand. What a voice a true legend!
I was lucky enough to see Queen in a little club (Tiffanys) in Purley of all places, in 1979 & f*## me they were a stunning live band
Only found this online recently.
THE gig I wish I'd been at.
I literally did get kicked off stage by big Phil into the crowd. Rock city days, great memories, might try it at frank turner next month 😉
Great link RS - Little Feat one of my all time fave bands. I shall enjoy that!
To all the posters linking to Queen - bear in mind that Freddie based his stage performance on Hitler or Mussolini. Think of that and try to watch him now....
see what you mean 😯
Fugazi doing [i]waiting room
[/i]. Feel the energy from 25 years away.
Might be TOTP but cant help but smile at this
And as I've only just yesterday made contact with the Big Figure's son after 20 years .....
Saw The Black Crowes on that tour - The High as the Moon tour in '92. They were superb!
Thin Lizzy, Cold Sweat, live in Dublin pub, This is as close as I can get to when they played Live on a program called OTT which is still clear in my mind after one viewing many years ago.
So many to post, but I think it may offend some of your gentler musical sensibilities! 😆
Hah, love stuff like this. Don't bands always have a tonne of magic about them when they're fresh and young? I can't bear Fleetwood Mac's middle aged tour videos... they just stare sullenly into space and sing for coins. But early days Lyndsey's talent, Mick's presence, Stevie's draw, and the other two, it's just awesome.
Great Fugazi clip above, and I've not heard that Thin Lizzy track before. Didn't think of them as a band that played stuff that heavy!
Speaking of fresh faced, and a bit off topic, I don't think these boys are even shaving yet:
Aaaw moose, you must be so radcore! Just because most vids aren't vile doesn't mean folk don't like vile... it's just I doubt the latest Pig Destroyer live show would count among the 'Great' rock performances! 🙂
Nah, dude. I just like newer stuff. To be fair there aren't many modern rock bands that cut the mustard live. Fair few metal, but not many rock. Last decent gig I went to was the Foos.
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To all the posters linking to Queen - bear in mind that Freddie based his stage performance on Hitler or Mussolini. Think of that and try to watch him now....
Congratulations! You've just won a years supply of Andrex, to wipe away the bullshit from your mouth! 😛
hah slackaline I know, I don't think Mercury 'based his stage performance' on anyone, though I'm sure plenty people enjoy comparing his moves to other people!
😆 #slackalice. I think you've missed my point. 😆
Slade: they brought the house down. Nod ordered clearing of chairs to make a dance floor, we danced, sang, stomped, clapped and laughed to cue. Nod sang, his Telecaster growled, Jim's Bass shook the place, Don chewed gum and hammered the kit, Dave errrrrr, Dave pranced around and played guitar now and then. I'm not sure if I should blame Slade or high revving engines for my tinnitus.
could have picked any or all of this gig but if it's ever on telly in full, watch it, all killer and no filler even before aladdin Sane or Low/heroes or young americans... bloody hell could Mick Ronson play !
I'm going to drop this one in here. I grew up with this band, then to have them No1 on the day my son was born, well it made an amazing day that bit more special.
Not to everyones taste, but one of the most intense bands live.
You can't have thread like this without one of the greatest frontmen of all time...
You mean one of the biggest c***s of all time Kryton?
Depending on your knowledge and opinion maybe. Plenty of others acknowledge him as a complete and utter genius with associated personality disorders.
I didn't post it to ram an opinion in, just because they were, and performed same of the greatest rock performances of all time, like it or not.
Kryton, agreed. He is a massive douche, but amazing frontman. Like I said, not many with that kind of presence today.
I certainly wouldn't call him a genius, by any stretch of the imagination. However, he, like the rest of the band, was talented, and as a collective they were a force to be reckoned with at the time.
Personally, I think he was too erratic to be labelled as one of the best frontmen ever. Maybe I saw them too late (at Wembley Stadium, supported by Faith No More and Soundgarden, on the Use Your Illusion tour).
Talking of erratic frontmen:
A personal favourite, but also flawed.
At a risk of offending a lot of people, who else could have added such presence and justice to this without actually being Freddie? IMHO. Forget the person, close your eyes and turn it up...
I leave you with this:
'night ladies.
Another legend:
Edukator - you are right, Slade are the best live band I have seen.
Truly excellent.
Dio - I rated him as a great singer, but he was rubbish live when I saw him with his own band.
Dr. Feelgood, early 80's, a great band then, even without Wilko.
Dio was an incredible front man. I massively regret not going to see him on his last tour as I dismissed him as being too old and on a money grab.
AC/DC @ River Plate
Queen @ Milton Keynes Bowl
Would have loved to seen Slade live!
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - MemberAC/DC @ River Plate
Good call – love ‘Thunderstruck’ because it shows the scale of the arena
Greg Dulli. Not the biggest or best, but giving it all.
None of them ever achieved anything subsequently that came close to the Cream, even though they hated each other.
Me and four school mates got there at 8 in the morning but we were still about 50 yards from the stage. Great high point of our early teenage years. After then it all got too spendy with 'festivals'.
Kryton you'll be glad to hear that Slash and Axle have made up..... And there is rumour of a reforming of the original Gnr.
This was apparently the day Cream broke up. The BBC supposedly had a fit as it was completely unannounced. Lulu is the presenter if I remember.
No one comes close to Hendrix as a performer
Kryton you'll be glad to hear that Slash and Axle have made up..... And there is rumour of a reforming of the original Gnr.
'S been going on for 20 years that rumour. It'd be nice to se a reconciliation before one of them cops it, and a reformation concert / tour could make them all millions. But I'm not sure any of them need to, so other than "doing it for the fans" which isn't at the top of Axl's method of thinking I doubt it'll ever happen.
Never been a fan of GnR; far too much hype in my opinion. The only song of theirs which i think has any real merit is 'civil war'. That said, I'm more of a Prog fan these days.
This is much more my thing:
Never got into Bruce much, but this is awesome
Soooo many to choose
Zep - Dazed and Confused live at Madison Square Garden (30 mins of ripping the air asunder like none before or since)
Santana - Soul Sacrifice live at Woodstock
Sabbath - War Pigs live in Paris 1971
Beastie Boys, Sabotage live at Woodstock 1999
But here's The Makeup - Live In The Rhythm Hive. Video quality is terrible but the performance is enormous. Wish they'd stuck around 🙁
Hrm...some things die out for good reason i reckon
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams, (Detroit 1969)
early radiohead, had the pleasure of this a couple of times live before they got big.
Take That comeback concerts or Aqua in their prime for me.
This is just sublime
77 was a good year for punk, Blondie at Barb's was a blast. Then the audiences started gobbing. 🙁
One from Noddy Holder:
"All the girls wearing black knickers say yeah" - laughing, giggling and a few shouts of yeah
"All the girls wearing white knickers say yeah" - more laughing and more shouts of yeah
"All the girls wearing no knickers at all say yeah" - general hysteria and shouting of yeah as they launched into the next song.